DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition

from Altera Corporation

The DSP Development Kit, Cyclone^® II Edition is RoHS compliant and delivers a complete development environment for digital signal processing (DSP). The DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition provides a low-cost hardware platform for developing high-performance DSP designs based on Altera^® Cyclone II FPGAs.  The kit includes the Cyclone II DSP development board, DSP Builder development tool, Quartus^® II development software, The MathWorks' MATLAB/Simulink evaluation software, evaluation intellectual property (IP) cores, and system reference designs and labs, as well as power supplies, cables, and documentation.

• Ordering Information
• Development Kit Contents
• Available Documentation

Ordering Information

Table 1. DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition Ordering Code and Pricing Information
Ordering Code	Price	Ordering Information
DK-DSP-2C70N	$995	In North America, call 1-888-800-0631. For international sales, contact your local distributor.
DC-VIDEO-TVP5146	$195	In North America, call 1-888-800-0631. For international sales, contact your local distributor.

Development Kit Contents

The DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition features:

• Cyclone II EP2C70 DSP development board
  • Cyclone II EP2C70F672C6 device
• Analog I/O
  • Two 14-bit analog-to-digital (A/D) converter channels with 125-million samples per second (MSPS)
  • Two 14-bit, 165-MSPS, 70 dB digital-to-analog (D/A) converters
  • One 24-bit RGB VGA adapter with a DB-15 connector
  • One Audio CODEC with input, output, and amplified output
• External I/O
  • Mictor connector for hardware and software debugging
  • 3.3-V/5-V tolerant Altera expansion/prototype headers
  • One Texas Instruments Evaluation Module (TI-EVM) expansion connector to connect to the Spectrum Digital 'DSP Starter Kit (DSK) for the TMS320C6416', Revision E
• Memory  subsystem
  • 256-Mbyte DDR2 SDRAM DIMM
  • 1-Mbyte synchronous SRAM (SSRAM)
  • Two EPCS64 devices
• MATLAB/Simulink evaluation software
• DSP Builder development tool
• Quartus II Education Kit
• Evaluation IP cores
• System reference designs and labs
  • DSP Builder filtering design
  • DSP Builder/SOPC Builder image processing reference design
  • Fast Fourier transform (FFT) coprocessor reference design for Texas Instruments' TMS320C6416 DSK
  • Nios^® II reference designs
  • DDR2 DIMM reference design
• Cables and accessories
• USB-Blaster^TM download cable
• Power supply
• International power cords

Video input daughtercard features:

• Two composite video input channels using the TI TVP5146 ADC
• Support for NTSC/PAL
• 10-bit BT.656 output
• Compatibility with expansion connector, standard on most Altera development kits and included with the Video Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition

Figure 1. Cyclone II EP2C70 DSP Development Board

Available Documentation

Related Links

• Video Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition
• Video Input Daughtercard